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INVITATION - Exhibitions at NGMA, New Delhi - ‘Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders and the Community’ and ‘No Parsi is an Island’ - Sunday 20th March 2016 at 5:30 pm

The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Ministry of Culture, Government of India is pleased to organize the exhibitions entitled ‘Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders and the Community’ and ‘No Parsi is an Island’ at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, from 20th March 2016 to 29th May 2016. The curators of this exhibition are Dr. Pheroza J. Godrej, Firoza Punthakey Mistree, Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania.

The exhibition will be inaugurated by Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Hon’ble Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs in the presence of Shri Narendra Kumar Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Shri Rakesh Garg, Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs,  on Sunday, 20th March 2016 at 5:30 pm at Jaipur House, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

Painted Encounters: Parsi Traders and the Community, curated by Pheroza J. Godrej and Firoza Punthakey Mistree, traces through the medium of paintings, engravings and photographs, the extraordinary evolution of Parsi traders who built ships and facilitated trade with Canton in the 19th century.  Parsi merchants hailing from hamlets in Gujarat and rich from the China Trade, commissioned Indian and European artists to paint portraits and were noteworthy patrons of these art forms. This exhibition examines the changing styles and influence of  the genre loosely termed as 'Parsi portraiture'  and explores  the interesting historiography and times of the leading Parsi traders whose activities  boosted capital accumulation and helped shape 19th century Bombay into an international, financial metropolis.

‘No Parsi is an Island’, curated by Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania with Pheroza J. Godrej, is a curatorial re-reading of the work of 14 Parsi artists across 150 years, from Pestonji Bomanji (1851-1938) to Gieve Patel (b. 1940). This exhibition not only showcases the works of these artists, but also displays for the first time their rich and varied contributions to the domains of film, poetry, theatre, classical dance, crafts activism and children’s literature.

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Date: March 15, 2016